Fascist Hybridities: Representations of Racial Mixing and Diaspora Cultures Under Mussolini - Couverture rigide

Caponetto, Rosetta Giuliani

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1137481846 ISBN 13 : 9781137481849

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

Synopsis

While less explicitly racist than its Germany Nazi counterpart, Italian Fascism attached considerable importance to racial purity. Fascist Hybridities examines how Italian literature and cinema of the 1930s are traversed by hybrid figures, and how these works ultimately reveal biracial offspring and Levantines as interchangeable characters who, in the historical scenario under which Mussolini's Fascist regime operated, present unique and specific threats to notions of Italian racial and cultural purity. As Rosetta Giuliani-Caponetto shows, that more often than not, the visual and textual presence of mulatto and Levantine characters stoked deep racial and cultural anxieties, forcing their audiences to uncomfortably examine, rather than confirm, their own collective identity.

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À propos de l'auteur

Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto is Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Auburn University, USA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1137481846
• ISBN 13: 9781137481849
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 210
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